Newspaper filing cabinet



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NEWSPAPER FILING CABINET Filed Feb. 25, 1953 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 INVENTOR 5 A/wb /7. 0rum BY Ww @u (M ATTORNEYS 2,738,251 NEWSPAPER FILING CABINET Alvin H. Corum, Louisville, Ky.

Application February 25, 1953, Serial No. 338,842

I p 1 Claim. (Cl. 312-312) This invention relates broadly to the field of otlice furniture and equipment and, more particularly, is intended to provide a filing cabinet which is particularly intended and useful for the storage of full size or tabloid newspapers and similar publications.

It is the usual practice in newspaper publishing plants and ofiices to maintain, for oifice purposes, a copy of each edition of a newspaper. In accordance with general and usual practice, this is now done by making up volumes of bound newspapers which are very bulky and difficult to handle. I have provided by this invention a cabinet which is particularly constructed and adapted to receive a number of drawers, each of which will receive all of the additions of a newspaper printed in one day, whereby all of the editions for a period of time such as a month or a week will be readily available for examination.

My invention is described and claimed in the following specification and is illustrated in the attached drawings, it being understood that the embodiment of the invention disclosed in this application is merely illustrative of the invention and imposes no limitation thereon not imposed by the appended claim.

In the drawings forming part of this application,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a filing cabinet according to my invention, some of the drawers of which have been removed;

Figs. 2 and 3 are cross sectional views taken, respectively, on the lines 22 and 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of a form of a drawer according to my invention, and

Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4.

In the drawings there is illustrated a newspaper filing cabinet which is constructed in accordance with my invention and which comprises a box-like structure having side walls 2, 4 and end walls 6, 8. This structure is preferably longer than it is wide in order to provide ample accommodation for the drawers which are received within it. One bottom longitudinal edge of this structure is removed, as shown at 12, in order to permit a user of the cabinet to stand close to it. The described cabinet structure is preferably hollow and the inside surfaces of its longitudinal side walls 2, 4 are provided with transversely aligned strips which are slightly inclined to the vertical and which are parallel to each other and are spaced apart longitudinally of the cabinet to provide guideways 22 between adjacent strips. In the preferred embodiment of my invention thirty-one of such guideways are provided and, as shown in Fig. 1, these are numbered consecutively from 1 to 31 to designate the day of the month. Also in the preferred embodiment of the invention, the cabinet is divided lengthwise into a number of compartments divided by spaced partitions 24, 26. Two of these partitions are provided in the embodiment disclosed in the drawing, thus dividing the cabinet into three compartments, the first of which includes the guide ways numbered 1 to 11, the second of which includes the guideways numbered 12 to 21, and the third of which includes the guideways numbered 22 to 31. A greater or lesser number of partitions may be provided, if desired, with a corresponding greater or lesser number of guideways per compartment. The space at the top of the cabinet between the end wall 6 and the first guideway is covered, as shown at 30, and the space between the end wall 8 and the last guideway is covered as shown at 32 in order to improvethe appearance of the cabinet and to provide working surfaces which may be used by anyone who is examining the newspapers filed in the cabinet. In accordance with my invention each pair of laterally-aligned guideways slidably receives a drawer 50, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, in which figure only two drawers are shown, although more are shown in Fig. l. Adjacent the bottom of the cabinet there are provided two longitudinally extending strips 33 which are respectively attached to the inner surfaces of the side walls 2, 4 and on the upper surfaces of which the lower ends of the drawers rest and which therefore provide supports for the drawers when they are within the cabinet.

It will be understood that in accordance with the illustrated embodiment of the invention thirty-one drawers are provided in the cabinet, each of which is constructed, adapted and intended to receive all of the editions of a newspaper published on the day of the month corresponding to the number of the drawer. Thus, for example, all of the editions of a newspaper published on the 18th day of any month may be placed in the drawer numbered 18. Each drawer is slidably received in one of the guideways and the number of each guideway is preferably marked in a series extending along or adjacent the upper edge of one of the side walls of the cabinet, which is preferably the wall opposite to that from which the lower edge is removed at 12. In the illustrated embodiment the numbers are marked on the inclined face of a moulding strip 52 which extends along the upper surface of side wall 2 of the cabinet. It will be seen that the numbering permits the drawer corresponding to any day of the month to be easily and quickly identified and drawn from the cabinet.

Each drawer preferably comprises a generally flat, traylike structure having side walls 60, 62, a lower end wall 64, an upper end wall 66 and a bottom 68. Strips 70, 72 are mounted on the outer surface of each side wall 60, 62 and extend longitudinally thereof to provide slides which are received in the guideways 22. The side walls 60, 62 are preferably extended beyond the lower end wall 64 and between these end extensions a rotatable shaft 74 is mounted to which there is secured a cover 76 which normally lies on top of the surface of the filed papers within the drawer but which may be moved to open position, as shown in Fig. 5, in order to permit access to the newspapers within the drawer. The upper end wall 66 isprovided with a flange 77 having an aperture 78 which may be used to remove the drawer from the cabinet.

While I have described and illustrated one embodiment of my invention, which is preferred for newspaper filing, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other embodiments as well as modifications of that disclosed, may be made and practiced without departing in any way from the spirit or scope of the invention, for the limits of which reference must be had to the appended claim.

What is claimed is:

A newspaper filing cabinet for loosely filing separately for each day of the month, the editions of that day comprising a front side wall, a back side wall and end walls defining a box-like structure having an open top,

a plurality of inclined transversely aligned strips attached in .spacedv relation. to the. inner face of each. of the side walls to provide guideways inclined downwardly towards one of said end walls, each of said guideways being adapted to receive a drawer, a pair of parallel strips within said cabinet and extending from end wall to endwall adjacent the lower ends of said guideways to provide supports for said drawers when positioned in said guideways, a projecting surface along the upper edge of said back side wall, a consecutive series of numbers marked on said surface with each number adjacent and designating one of said inclined guideways, a drawer in each of said guideways having a bottom, sidewalls and end walls defining a drawer cavity whose open side, when said drawer is positioned in said cabinet, faces slantingly upwardly'toward's the open top of said cabinet, said walls defining said cavity having sufiicient depth so that said cavity may receive loosely stacked therein the newspaper editions of a single day, a cover co-extensive with said cavity and'hinged adjacent the end wall of said drawer opposite the open end of said cabinet when said. drawer is positioned therein, said cover, when closed, with said drawer in .saidcabinet, bearing. onnewspapers in said drawer cavity to retain them in stacked condition, a strip on the exterior of each of said side walls of said drawer extending longitudinally thereof and adapted to be received in one of the inclined guideways, and a handle part associated with the upper end wall and adapted to be positioned at the top of the cabinet when the drawer is in position within the cabinet.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 968,253 Moses Aug. 23, 1910 1,311,322 Culverwell July 29, 1919 1,352,101 Swales Sept. 7, 1920 1,999,162 Wolters Apr. 23, 1935 2,341,093 l-laberstrump Feb. 8, 1944 FOREIGN PATENTS 200.399 Great Britain July 12, 1923 

